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An end of doctrinal controversies which have lately troubled the churches
An end of doctrinal controversies which have lately troubled the churches by reconciling explication without much disputing. Written by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for John Salusbury, 1691
Chapter 12 › Section 5: Of the Law or Covenant of Grace in the last Edition, or the Gospel.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
§ 14. The Precepts or Law of Christ now contain, 1. The Law of Nature (for all Things and Judgment are given up to him.) 2. The new peculiar Laws of Grace, containing our special Faith in Christ, and his special Institutions of Church-Order, Ministry, Worship, &c.
§ 14. The Precepts or Law of Christ now contain, 1. The Law of Nature (for all Things and Iudgment are given up to him.) 2. The new peculiar Laws of Grace, containing our special Faith in Christ, and his special Institutions of Church-Order, Ministery, Worship, &c.
§. 15. The Penalty of the Law of Grace in this Edition, is as in the first. 1. A Privation of its Benefits to Nonconsenters or Infidels, with a greater degree of punishment for Ingratitude. 2. And withdrawings of the Spirits help for our quenching and resisting it, and abusing Mercy. 3. And temporal castigatory Punishments to Believers for their faults.
§. 15. The Penaelty of the Law of Grace in this Edition, is as in the first. 1. A Privation of its Benefits to Nonconsenters or Insidels, with a greater d•gree of punishment for Ingratitude. 2. And withdrawings of the Spirits help for our quenching and resisting it, and abusing Mercy. 3. And temporal castigatory Punishments to Believers for their saults.
§. 16. The Sum of all essential to this Covenant, is in Baptism, and the Lords Supper, which are therefore Sacraments and Symbols of it; and Baptism was appointed by Christ himself to be the solemn Initiation, Badge, and Character of his Disciples and Church-Members.